It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?

He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.

If you introduce the human figure you at once arouse either disgust or desire.

He lived on, miserable and misunderstood, as before, and increasingly lonely. One cannot write those words too often: Maurice’s loneliness: it increased.

The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

Love had failed. Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. it could not do things.

I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants.

Too late... everything's always too late.

Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.

Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.

The boiling water that does not cool down only dries out!

In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessings. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.

A work of real merit finds favor at last.

We said we'd never tour ... and we'll never do a tour, I don't think - or if we do it won't be longer than about two weeks.

There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.

The road to success is wherever people need another road.

We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.